This has worked for the most part. I still get a problem if the laptop enters sleep mode. When I bring it out of sleep mode there is no wifi. Also the code "frkill unblock all" (as SU) has no effect. I have to reboot the system.Any suggestions?

Often it is the case that the wireless driver drops when the laptop goes to sleep/hibernate/cryofreeze. Let's identify your driver and write one file to see if we can reload it on wake-up. Please post:

chili555 wrote:Often it is the case that the wireless driver drops when the laptop goes to sleep/hibernate/cryofreeze. Let's identify your driver and write one file to see if we can reload it on wake-up. Please post:

The cause is already identified. It is the thinkpad_acpi module (thinkpad-acpi driver) which disables the wireless in rfkill.

Unfortunately we can't blacklist thinkpad_acpi, as that will also leave flanna unable to control the screen brightness and volume, use the Fn-Fx key combinations and a lot of other ACPI features. Here's some general information about thinkpad-acpi: http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.0.4/Docum ... d-acpi.txt

Registered Linux User #528502Feel free to correct me if I'm trying to write in Spanish, French or German.

The cause is already identified. It is the thinkpad_acpi module (thinkpad-acpi driver) which disables the wireless in rfkill.

Unfortunately we can't blacklist thinkpad_acpi, as that will also leave flanna unable to control the screen brightness and volume, use the Fn-Fx key combinations and a lot of other ACPI features. Here's some general information about thinkpad-acpi: http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.0.4/Docum ... d-acpi.txt

Which is it, flanna? When you resume from suspend, is rfkill soft-blocked or is iwlagn not loaded?

Now phy0 is hard blocked. That means, that you have to use the wifi on/off switch to get it working. If that switch doesn't turn it on, I think it's a hardware problem.chili555 just pointed out that Wireless WAN is not related to Wireless LAN. But still there is a switch, button or key turning off the WLAN as it reports to be hard blocked.

Registered Linux User #528502Feel free to correct me if I'm trying to write in Spanish, French or German.

The wlan- Button on the side of the netbook is switched to on. In Bios the wlan is also turned to on.

I had the same problem a few years ago, there it helped to start with windows and there I could activate the wlan,so it also runs in Linux again. This maybe help somone else.I have no windows anymore on my netbook so this option isn't there fo me anymore.

Firmware missing means usually that b43-fwcutter is not installed. If it still does not work with b43-fwcutter installed properly, please install firmware-b43-installer as well. And please use terminal so that we can see it when something goes wrong:

AlbertP wrote:Firmware missing means usually that b43-fwcutter is not installed. If it still does not work with b43-fwcutter installed properly, please install firmware-b43-installer as well. And please use terminal so that we can see it when something goes wrong: